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Simin Daneshvar

1921 - 2012

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Simin Dāneshvar (Persian: سیمین دانشور‎; 28 April 1921 – 8 March 2012) was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer, and translator. She was largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. Her books dealt with the lives of ordinary Iranians, especially those of women, and through the lens of recent political and social events in Iran at the time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simin Daneshvar has received more than 113,525 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Simin Daneshvar is the 3,694th most popular writer (down from 3,570th in 2019), the 297th most popular biography from Iran (down from 277th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Iranian Writer.

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  • 110k

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  • 49.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Simin Daneshvar ranks 3,694 out of 5,755. Before her are John Osborne, Theodore Abu Qurrah, Otto Ludwig, Günter Eich, Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, and Alexander Kazbegi. After her are Maurice Sachs, Laurens van der Post, Jorge Isaacs, Dennis Lehane, Frederic W. H. Myers, and Krishan Chander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Simin Daneshvar ranks 231. Before her are Saul Zaentz, Alexander Kemurdzhian, Bengt Danielsson, Isabella Karle, Imre Kovács, and John Agar. After her are Jeanne Demessieux, Ken Adam, Jack Kramer, Lis Hartel, Paulo Evaristo Arns, and Rodney Dangerfield. Among people deceased in 2012, Simin Daneshvar ranks 204. Before her are Donald "Duck" Dunn, Pierre Sinibaldi, Eugene Polley, Paavo Berglund, George Knobel, and John Keegan. After her are Ervin Zádor, Włodzimierz Smolarek, Ignatius IV of Antioch, Mahmoud El-Gohary, Luis Alberto Spinetta, and Mike Wallace.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Simin Daneshvar ranks 297 out of 528. Before her are Masoud Kimiai (1941), Jafar Khan (1800), Timur Shah Durrani (1748), Kamal-ol-molk (1848), Shaun Toub (1963), and Abbas (1944). After her are Abdolkarim Soroush (1945), Kader Abdolah (1954), Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani (1931), Iraj Mirza (1874), Bahram Beyzai (1938), and Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh (1892).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Simin Daneshvar ranks 43. Before her are Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1886), Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi (995), Anvari (1126), Mastoureh Ardalan (1805), Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (1923), and Simin Behbahani (1927). After her are Kader Abdolah (1954), Iraj Mirza (1874), Bahram Beyzai (1938), Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh (1892), Bozorg Alavi (1904), and Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (1940).

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